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A method, system and apparatus for selecting, displaying, managing, tracking and transferring access to content of Internet web pages and other sources has programming permitting a user to create custom selections of selected image, animation, movie and text content items, and other types of content items from web pages or other sources from the same or different network sources containing multiple content items in an independent, resizable, rescalable browser window; permitting the user to transfer access to the custom selection of content items to a recipient; permitting the user or recipient to navigate quickly to a source of a content item in the custom selection; and permitting the user to define search keywords for performing searches related to content items in a custom selection; and other features. A method of tracking viewing and sharing activities of content items and custom selections of content items by users and recipients is also disclosed.

A method of spectrally broadening light pulses includes the steps of providing the light pulses with a laser source, said light pulses having a pulse duration below 1 ps, in-coupling the light pulses into a hollow optical waveguide device, and spectrally broadening the light pulses propagating along the pulse guiding medium by subjecting them to a Raman nonlinearity via excitation of a Raman polarization having a first Raman period, wherein the optical waveguide device subjects the light pulses to anomalous group velocity dispersion which combines with the spectral broadening of the light pulses to result in a Raman-enhanced self-compression of the light pulses, and the light pulses further propagate along the optical waveguide device such that the Raman-enhanced self compression results in a further excitation of a Raman polarization having a second Raman period which is faster than the first Raman period.

The present invention provides a system for improving diastolic function of the heart comprising elastic elements and attachment elements, wherein said elastic elements and said attachment elements are configured such that they are capable of being interconnected to form a chain formed of an alternating series of said elastic elements and said attachment elements, and wherein said attachment elements are adapted to be anchored in the wall of the heart and with option for drug delivery to the wall of the heart. The invention further provides devices, methods and kits, for mounting the ventricular function assisting device of the invention.

Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by improving the scheduling of execution of jobs for or by network-connected devices, thereby enabling the job execution process to scale more easily, efficiently, and effectively to support large numbers of devices and/or users. Examples of jobs include, but are not limited to, distribution of resources (including software, configuration information, images, and other types of content) to a device, fetching a device's inventory information, backing up a device's contents, and so forth. Jobs are programmatically scheduled based upon a specified time internal, according to a class of the requester. Only if an earliest start time after which the job may be executed for this requester has been reached will the job be executed; otherwise, the job execution is delayed. The disclosed techniques lessen the need for additional servers to handle spikes in processing load, reduce the likelihood of reaching system overload, and reduce the likelihood of cascading failures that may occur when systems are overloaded.

A method and apparatus for quantizing audio signals is disclosed which advantageously produces a quantized audio signal which can be encoded within an acceptable range. Advantageously, the quantizer uses a scale factor which is interpolated between a threshold based on the calculated threshold of hearing at a given frequency and the absolute threshold of hearing at the same frequency.

When reading a memory cell on a NAND string, the word lines for the memory cells not being read will receive a voltage so that those memory cells operate as pass gates. Over time, if there are a lot of read operations without any program operations, the cells not being read may suffer from Read Disturb because the voltage applied to the word lines may cause electrons to accumulate in the floating gates of the non-selected cells. The accumulation of charge in the floating gates raises the threshold voltage. To avoid the limitations of Read Disturb, only one word line of a block (or other grouping) is used to program and read data. In a system using NAND flash memory, the word line being read is not typically subjected to read disturb. Thus, a NAND flash memory that restricts programming and reading to one word line of a block is not likely to exhibit read disturb in that block.

A two- (or multi) stage power amplifier receives a variable RF input signal, and outputs an optimized. RF output signal from, for example, a mobile handset. The output power level from the handset is predetermined, as known in the art, by the received control signal from a base station. The first power amplifier stage amplifies the variable RF input signal and outputs an RF signal, Vin, to a power detector circuit and an RF signal to the second or next amplifier stage. The power detect circuit amplifies the Vin signal and rectifies that signal with a linearly biased diode and provides a detect signal to a DC to DC converter. The converter responds by providing an optimum voltage bias, which is linearly related to the DC voltage detect signal from the power detector, to the output stage, and, if desired, to the first and/or other stages of the power amplifier that optimizes the output power level while meeting the required linearity specification. The battery current consumption is optimized through this automatic, dynamically control of the supply voltage for the power amplifier at each output power level through the DC to DC converter.

A threaded space-time (TST) architecture in a multiple antenna wireless communication system uses the coded transmission in each layer of a transmission resource array as a space-time code. Each layer of a layer set is active during all available symbol transmission intervals, and each of the transmit antennas are used equally often, such that layers each transmit a symbol using a different antenna during each symbol transmission interval. A receiver is provided for multi-user reception using an iterative, soft-input/soft-output (SISO) multi-user detection algorithm based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion, among other methods.

A speech recognition system for transforming an acoustic signal into a stream of phonetic estimates includes a frequency analyzer for generating a short-time frequency representation of the acoustic signal. A novelty processor separates background components of the representation from region of interest components of the representation. The output of the novelty processor includes the region of interest components of the representation according to the novelty parameters. An attention processor produces a gating signal as a function of the novelty output according to attention parameters. A coincidence processor produces information regarding co-occurrences between samples of the novelty output over time and frequency. The coincidence processor selectively gates the coincidence output as a function of the gating signal according to one or more coincidence parameters. A vector pattern recognizer and a probability processor receives the gated coincidence output and produces a phonetic estimate stream representative of acoustic signal.

The present invention relates generally to radiation-resistant medical devices which contain polymer regions for release of therapeutic agents. The present invention also relates to radiation-resistant block copolymer materials for use in connection with insertable or implantable medical devices. The radiation-sterilized medical device comprise (a) a release region and (b) at least one therapeutic agent and the release region comprises a radiation resistant copolymer that includes (i) a low T_g hydrocarbon polymer block and (ii) one or more high T_g polymer blocks.

The present invention is a compression ignition internal combustion engine and method of operation which expands the load limit of quietly operating a premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) engine by injecting a secondary fuel B, in ratios lean of stoichiometric, either into the intake air stream or directly into the cylinder to form a homogeneous fuel B and air mixture. Near top dead center of the compression stroke, a PCCI-type direct injection of fuel A event is used to initiate combustion of both fuel A and B at the proper time. At low loads the combustion mode is characterized a PCCI-type with high EGR rates. At medium loads the combustion mode is that of homogeneous combustion of fuel B coupled with PCCI combustion of fuel A. At the highest loads the engine will revert to a conventional diesel combustion mode of fuel A to maintain power density.

A multi-modality fluorescence reference plate comprising wells coated with a fluorogenic compound is described, together with a method of producing such a plate. The plate has utility for calibrating fluorescent plate readers and imaging systems for measuring steady-state fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, fluorescence lifetime and/or fluorescence polarisation.

The invention discloses a message forwarding method and device. The method and the device are applied to a virtual system comprising core backbones (CBs) and port extenders (PEs), device identification of each PE and local unit identification and global unit identification of chips in each PE are configured on each CB, the local unit identifications in corresponding PEs uniquely identify the chips in the PEs, and the global unit identifications uniquely identify the chips in the virtual system. The method includes that after the CBs receive redirected messages of the PEs from downlink ports of the CBs, source chip identifications in the messages are mapped to corresponding global unit identifications from the local unit identifications, forwarding table entry study is performed according to the global unit identifications, and when the messages are forwarded to the PEs from the downlink ports of the CBs, destination chip identifications in the messages are mapped to the local unit identifications from the global unit identifications. By means of the message forwarding method and device, the capacity of the virtual system can be increased.

The invention relates to a method for measuring the diameter and the straightness accuracy parameters of a seamless round steel pipe. The method includes the steps as follows: accomplishing the calibration of parameters of a multi-linear structured light vision sensor formed by one video camera and multi-line laser projectors; distributing the multi-linear structured light vision sensors on the periphery of the seamless round steel pipe to be tested; respectively controlling the laser projectors to project structured light plane onto the measured section of the seamless round steel pipe by a computer, collecting the images of laser stripes on the surface of the seamless round steel pipe and processing the images of the laser strip by a video camera, and calculating the three-dimensional coordinates of different sections according to a measurement model; determining the elliptical center of each section of the space, realizing the measurement of the straightness accuracy of the seamless round steel pipe and establishing the dynamic and virtual central axis of the seamless round steel pipe; establishing the reference plane of the dynamic and virtual projection of ellipse of the section of the space; and front projecting the ellipse of the section of the space onto the reference plane of the dynamic and virtual projection, and carrying out the operation of circle fitting on the reference plane, thereby obtaining the section circle of the steel pipe. The method can realize the on-line, real-time, automatic and noncontact measurement of the diameter and the straightness accuracy parameters of the seamless round steel pipe.

The method includes providing a delivery device. The delivery device comprises a support stent, an inner sheath, and an outer sheath. The support stent is slidably positioned about a wire lumen. The support stent has a proximal end and a distal end, and is expandable from a compressed delivery configuration to an expanded configuration. The inner sheath is retractably positioned about the support stent with the support stent in the delivery configuration. The anchor stent is slidably positioned about the inner sheath and is deployable from a compressed delivery configuration to a deployed configuration. The outer sheath is retracted to expand the anchor stent from the delivery configuration to an expanded configuration. The anchor stent is deployed in the body vessel. The inner sheath is retracted to expand the support stent from the compressed insertion configuration to an expanded configuration.

The present approach provides methods and processes for comprehensive management of the Mission Critical Ecosystem. Mission critical information management includes information from an entity's facilities, especially the critical facilities. The methods and processes disclosed herein allow for assessing and managing dependencies between assets, which may provide valuable insight into, for example, risk relationships for planned and unplanned events, and mitigation planning and management for incidents.

The present invention relates to a distributed optical fibre vibration sensing method based on double loop Mach-Zehnder interference and its equipment. Said equipment includes the following several portions: laser, fiber-optic coupler, two sensing optical fibres, optical circulator and photoelectric detector. Besides, said invention also provides the concrete steps for implementing the invented distributed optical fibre vibration sensing method.

A specific clinical protocol for use toward therapy of defective, diseased and damaged cholinergic neurons in the mammalian brain, of particular usefulness for treatment of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. The protocol is practiced by delivering a definite concentration of recombinant neurotrophin into, or within close proximity of, identified defective, diseased or damaged brain cells. Using a viral vector, the concentration of neurotrophin delivered as part of a neurotrophic composition varies from 10<10 >to 10<15 >neurotrophin encoding viral particles/ml of composition fluid. Each delivery site receives from 2.5 mul to 25 mul of neurotrophic composition, delivered slowly, as in over a period of time ranging upwards of 10 minutes/delivery site. Each delivery site is at, or within 500 mum of, a targeted cell, and no more than about 10 mm from another delivery site. Stable in situ neurotrophin expression can be achieved for 12 months, or longer.

The invention discloses a method for creating a three-dimensional model by using a sketch, which comprises the following steps of: dividing strokes of a freehand sketch into primitive strokes functioning as the outline of an object and threaded strokes acting as three-dimensional effect, identifying the strokes respectively and regularizing the primitive strokes; indicating the geometric constitution of the object by using a conditional rule generation method and realizing rule-driven reasoning by using primitive adjacency relationship under the guidance of drawing threads so as to identify object units and recover the depth information of each object unit; automatically discriminating and completing hidden lines of the object units according to geometric attributes of the object units under the guidance of a drawing thread rule so as to generate a complete three-dimensional object unit; and recreating the three-dimensional model of the object by using a geometric splicing method according to topological relation among the object units. The method has the advantages of expressing the three-dimensional effect with auxiliary threads, such as shade lines and the like, and drawing the perspective projection outline of the object with the freehand sketch so as to improve the degree of freedom of drawing.